**TELEGRAM**

Source: PSS vol. 53

TO ALL GUBERNATORIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES, GUBERNATORIAL PARTY COMMITTEES,

GUBERNATORIAL TRADE UNION COUNCILS, GUBERNATORIAL LABOR COMMITTEES

October 10, 1921

Under the influence of the aggravated food situation in the Donbass during the past months of May through July, tens of thousands of workers abandoned the mines and dispersed, partly beyond the limits of the basin. Flight was especially severe among face-workers, whose numbers fell from 16,000 to 10,000 in August, as well as among skilled workers in boiler operations. Currently in the Donbass a stable food situation has been established, namely: a three-month supply of grain has been delivered, which will be increased. It is proposed to develop broad agitation for the return to the mines of underground workers who have left the Donbass, namely: face-workers, pit-workers, timbermen, drillers, tunnelers, haulers, as well as boiler-men and engineers. Do not send other workers, except those in the specified categories.

In conducting agitation, make clear: 1) complete assurance of grain supply; 2) introduction of new rules for payment of labor in food and money according to productivity, with the abolition of egalitarian distributions of food and money; 3) the success of the food campaign in Ukraine depends in significant measure upon the return of workers, [which campaign is] being held back by shortage of fuel for food transport.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin*

First printed in 1933

in Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed according to the typewritten

text signed by V. I. Lenin